Routes

By Richard Maslen
Airline Route Update is a comprehensive summary of route announcements, capacity increases and codeshare details from this past week. For further
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By Richard Maslen
A carbon offsetting company used the recent ITB Berlin travel show to showcase its study into the world’s greenest airlines. Following its release
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Swiss carrier Edelweiss Air has dropped its plans to inaugurate services to Tokyo Narita following last month’s earthquake. The airline was due to add
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US major Delta Air Lines is to offer a daily seasonal link between Minneapolis and Reno this summer. The carrier will offer service between July 1 and
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LOT Polish Airlines has confirmed that it will temporarily suspend services to three Middle Eastern destinations during May and June due to “lower
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Argentine flag carrier Aerolineas Argentinas is to add a daily link between Mendoza and Santiago de Chile from July 1. The new service represents an
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Turkish Airlines (THY) is to boost its network into the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) republic of Kazakhstan this summer. From April 14 it
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Saudi Arabian Airlines has resumed flights from the southwestern city of Abha to Cairo, its fifth route to the Egyptian capital. The three times
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United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Emirates Airline has announced it will expand its South American network from January 2012 with a new daily link from
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US carrier Continental Airlines has outlined plans to resurrect flights between Guam and Okinawa, a route last served over 15 years ago. The US major
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LAN Argentina, part of the South American LAN Airlines group, is to add flights from Buenos Aires’ downtown airport Jorge Newbery to Bahia Blanca, an
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Thai low-cost carrier Nok Air has improved domestic links from some smaller communities in Northern Thailand through the introduction of four new
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Independent US carrier Direct Air has announced plans to inaugurate flights from Myrtle Beach International Airport to Hagerstown, Md., and Lakeland
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Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has launched overseas flights from the historic city of Ivano-Frankovsk in southwestern Ukraine. With
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Filipino carrier South East Asian Airlines (SE Air) has deepened its relationship with new shareholder Tiger Airways by using another of its Airbus
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Middle Eastern carrier Oman Air is to once again serve Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean archipelago of islands off the coast of Tanzania. The carrier will
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Hong Kong Express is to expand its network into Malaysia with the launch of a Hong Kong – Kota Kinabalu service. The twice weekly flight will commence
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Nordic budget carrier Norwegian is to further expand its network from Stockholm Arlanda in addition to its new routes to Berlin Schoenefeld, Prague
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Austrian regional carrier NIKI is to increase links between Vienna and Belgrade this winter with eleven rather than six flights per week. The airline
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) low-cost carrier flydubai has announced plans to inaugurate flights to Ethiopia with a three times weekly Dubai – Addis
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Czech Airlines is to inaugurate flights to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The weekly service, to be introduced from June 6, will be the airline’s
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Air India will this week transfer its own flights from Kochi, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram to the Saudi Arabian city of Dammam to its low-cost
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Taiwanese carrier TransAsia Airways has upgraded its four times weekly Makung – Kinmen route to a scheduled operation. The link, which had provided
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Ethiopian Airlines is to begin serving Chennai, its third destination in India. The African national carrier will extend its existing Addis Ababa –
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Air China will use the first of its soon to delivered Boeing 777-300ERs on its Beijing – Shanghai Hongqiao route from July 1, subject to delivery
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